HAIKU, Maui, Mar 10 - Before viewing this film, I recommend that you check out the following stories (if you haven't already) so as to have the full context of what you're about to see:

Alpine Healing Ceremony Part 1: Innsbruck-Bolzano (Mar 3)

Alpine Healing Cerem ony Part 2: At Lake Vernago (Mar 3)

HAIKU, Maui, Mar 10 - If you have read the first two stories about it, you will have seen that Saturday, Mar 3, was a magical day from dawn to dusk. The film you're about to see now is about the Alpine healing ceremony. I have just edited it into 14 out of over 30 minutes of video that I had shot on location.

The background music comes from my own compositions titled "4 Elements" (Earth, Air, Water, Fire). I created and recorded it in April 2011. As you will see, the music seems to fit perfectly with our mission and the purpose of the Spirit realm which guided me to this magnificent location. What may not be obvious to you, however, is that while I was editing the film, I did not even have to think about synchronizing the music with the scenes. It just happened, as if by magic.

So when I got to the end of the ceremony - the burning of the Despacho - the "Fire" segments from the "4 Elements" wa

Llamas in the Alps!

s playing in the background. I did not have to "manage" anything. The Spirit did it for me as they have done with everything that happened on that magical day.

For those of you who are not Inca-trained shamans, perhaps I should explain some of the terminology you will used in the film. "Pachamama" is Mother Earth in Quechua. "Pacarina" (or "Pakarina") is a place of origin, a birthplace. According to Inca legend, all life originated at Lake Titicaca, the world's highest lake (at 12,000 ft - see left and right photos and Tour of Puno, Lake Titicaca, Jan 2010). The Sun shed a tear, and when it dropped on the Earth, it created this lake and the Sun Island on it. There are other mythological versions of this story, but the basic premise of a "pacarina" is the same - place of origin, a birthplace.

Which is what Lake Vernago now is for us, the Stewards of the Earth. Lake Vernago, on whose shores this ceremony takes place, is "only" at about 6,000 ft elevation. But cosmologically it is an Alpine Pacarina, just as Lake Titicaca is an Andean one.